Arts bite: No Paris
by Andrew Gallix Imagine Jamie Reid stealing the Sex Pistols’ thunder or Linder Sterling upstaging the Buzzcocks: this is pretty much what happened in France at the end of the 70s. The Jeunes Gens Mödernes (“Mödern Young Things”) exhibition, curated by Jean-François Sanz at the Galerie du Jour in Paris, showcases most aspects of local […]
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if your perception of yourself does not include a detached sarcasm of yourself then i will have negative thoughts about you
if your perception of yourself is out of control and belligerent then i will have negative thoughts about you
if you like my hair i will have positive thoughts about you
By Brandon Scott Gorrell.
Springtime for Fante
Dan Fante has to be the angriest and edgiest writer the United States has ever produced. To read his novels, plays, short stories, and poetry is to dance on the knife’s edge of an alcohol (or sobriety)-fueled rage aimed right at the heart of all that’s unfair, mean-spirited, hypocritical, and just plain ugly in American society…If Dan Fante’s earlier books chronicled the train wreck that is so many people’s lives, then [this] is his attempt to pull the survivors from the wreckage. Both Fante’s old fans and lovers of gutty, uncompromising poetry in general owe it to themselves to experience how he manages to pull off such an unlikely and heartening feat.
Rob Woodard on Kissed By a Fat Waitress.